Case Study: The Series "El castillo"
Date and time: Thursday, Nov. 5th. 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Sala Berlanga de la Fundación SGAE
Tickets:
Box office: Until 1 minute before the film starts. (Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 4 to 9 p.m.)
Type of activity: Talk
Participants:
- Elena Martín Gimeno (director).
- Mabel Lozano (actress, director, and writer). Author of El proxeneta.
- Sandra Romero (director).
A discussion on the adaptation and making of the series, the process of bringing a story to the screen, and the various aspects involved in the creation and production of an audiovisual work.
Elena Martín Gimeno (Spain).Actress, screenwriter and director, born in Barcelona. She made her directorial debut with the feature film Júlia ist, which she also starred in. For her debut, she received the Silver Biznagas for Best Film and Best Director in the Zonacine section of the Málaga Film Festival. Her second feature, Creatura, in which she stars, co-wrote and directed, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where it received the Europa Cinemas Award for Best European Film. The film, which explores the awakening of sexuality and desire from childhood through to adulthood, also received six Gaudí Awards and three Goya Award nominations, among other accolades. As a director and screenwriter, she has also worked on other fiction projects, including Perfect Life, Veneno and En casa, an HBO series.
Mabel Lozano (Spain). Mabel Lozano is a Spanish writer, filmmaker, actress and activist advocating for women’s rights. Her documentary work has focused particularly on denouncing sexual exploitation, prostitution and the trafficking of women and girls. After studying film and specializing in social cinema and human rights, Lozano began her career as a documentary filmmaker in 2007. Her works include Voces contra la trata de mujeres, La teoría del espiralismo, Las sabias de la tribu, Madre and Chicas nuevas 24 horas, the latter of which was nominated for the Goya Awards and the Platino Awards.
In 2018, she released El proxeneta, one of her most significant works. The documentary features the first-person testimony of a human trafficker and traces the evolution of prostitution and human trafficking in Spain since the 1980s. The story also inspired a non-fiction book that won the Rodolfo Walsh Award. Among her most notable accolades are the Goya Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2021 for Biografía del cadáver de una mujer and in 2024 for Ava, a documentary about a minor who was a victim of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Sandra Romero (Spain). Sandra Romero is a director and screenwriter with a growing career in film. Her short film Una habitación propia premiered at the Seville European Film Festival and was selected for several international festivals. Her debut feature, Por donde pasa el silencio, premiered in the New Directors section of the San Sebastián International Film Festival after being developed through prestigious programmes such as Las Residencias de la Academia de Cine, CIMA Impulsa and Berlinale Talents. The short film of the same name on which it is based won the Silver Biznaga for Best Director at the Málaga Film Festival. Her third short film, El perro de un torero, premiered at SEMINCI. She also co-directed three episodes of the series Los años nuevos with Rodrigo Sorogoyen, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Her latest project is the series Se tiene que morir mucha gente, co-directed with Victoria Martín and Nacho Pardo, with its second season yet to be released.
